CBE News Update June, 2006 Volume 9, Issue 6   2006 College of Engineering Outreach Award   _____________________________________________________________________________________   Al Cunningham received the inaugural MSU College of Engineering Outreach Award. This award was established to recognize especially significant outreach achievement and/or a body of work evolving from extensive outreach activities. Over the past 25 years at MSU, Dr. Cunningham has developed unique and nontraditional outreach activities that revolve around education and industrial relations. His many outreach efforts include: the establishment of the Biofilm Institute, a not-for-profit public benefit corporation with the goal of wide-spread dissemination of educational materials on biofilms and their relevance to society; his productive involvement with the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA); co-teaching a one-week short course for the past ten years with Dr. Rainer Helmig at the University of Stuttgart in Germany; and his exceptional and extensive interactions with industry through the Center for Biofilm Engineering. Al Cunningham Center for Biofilm Engineering